The jaguar within : shamanic trance in ancient Central and South American art

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Main Author: Stone, Rebecca, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011
Series:Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies.
Subjects:
Indian art > Costa Rica.
Indian art > Andes Region.
Indians of Central America > Costa Rica > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Rites and ceremonies.
Shamanism > Costa Rica.
Shamanism > Andes Region.
Shamanism in art.
Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience > Costa Rica.
Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience > Andes Region.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: General Recurrent Themes in the Phenomenology of Visions; Chapter 2. The Common Perceptual Phenomena and Stages of the Visionary Experience; Chapter 3. Visions and Shamanizing: The Intermediary Role, Anomalousness, Control, and Balance; Chapter 4. Embodying the Shaman in Trance: Embracing Creative Ambiguity; Chapter 5. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art I: At the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux Continuum; Chapter 6. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Costa Rican Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum.
  • Chapter 7. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art I: Toward the Human End and the Balance Point of the Flux ContinuumChapter 8. Shamanic Embodiment in Ancient Central Andean Art II: Toward the Animal End and Beyond the Flux Continuum; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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